Kathy Ryan: Office Romance Book Signing

Join Aperture and New York Times Magazine director of photography Kathy Ryan for a book signing of Office Romance, a photographic love song to life at Ryan’s office. Mostly shot on the sixth floor of the landmark Renzo Piano-designed New York Times Building, Ryan captures moments of luminous beauty in her daily routine.

First published on Ryan’s Instagram feed, these photographs offer her rendering of the minute details of her working environment: her colleagues, the glorious building she works in, and the light of New York City. As well as the joy and pleasure in each moment captured, the book refers to the contrasts and ironies that characterize the photo world today; as old media meets new, an editor who commissions work from swashbuckling photographers all over the world finds moments of transcendent beauty within her office. The book includes Ryan’s own account of the pictures, and of how she got hooked on Instagram.

The New York Times Magazine Photographs exhibition, curated by Ryan, will also be on view at Aperture Gallery.

Kathy Ryan is the longtime director of photography at the New York Times Magazine, where she has been a pioneer of combining fine art photography and photojournalism in the pages of that publication. During her time there, the magazine has been recognized with numerous photography awards, including National Magazine Awards in both 2011 and 2012. In 2012, Ryan received the Royal Photographic Society’s annual award for Outstanding Service to Photography. Under Ryan’s leadership, the magazine commissions the world’s best photographers, a selection of whose work was published in The New York Times Magazine Photographs (Aperture, 2011), edited by Ryan. She also lectures on photography—including the 2012 Karsh Lecture in Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—and serves as a mentor at the School of Visual Arts, New York.